authors. this week, legal journalist john jenkins and his in his book, "the partistan" the life of william rehnquist. in it the publisher "cq" press details the early career and a 33 year supreme court tenure of the former chief justice. he talks with supreme court reporter and the biographer for justices o'connor and scalia, joan biskupic. >> host: welcome john jenkins. we are here to talk about your new book, "the partistan" the life of william rehnquist. i want to start with one general question to give our viewers a sense of who the chief justices and we william rehnquist was important. there've only been 17 chiefs, correct? tell us a little bit about the position. what's what's is the chief justice of the united states do in the importance of william rehnquist and then we will go into the chronology. yes go the chief has two roles in the judicial system. he is first the chief among equals on the court. he assigns the opinion when he was a majority and reach the discussion conference so he has a very poor girl to play among the nine justices. he is really the key guy there. particularl

back from the dead immediate control of the congress. john boehner is the speaker of the house. john boehner realizes that he has to confront his own people if he is going to save the credit rating them back on moody's and save it from downgrade. this is going to be a political disaster. john boehner can fill in the back of his scalp that this is going to be burning on the republicans. he feels political blame but it's also worried about the country. two hearts -- two heartbeats away from the downgrade. and so, he does something extraordinary. he acts like a leader. he comes up with a compromise. that is a political possibility from where he sits and he finds out a way to close loopholes and raise some $800 billion in new revenue. that should be enough to make a deal with the president of the united states. and he manages to come to a deal. even shake hands. and they can feel history, the wind of history at their back. and then we will reform entitlement. the vice president is deeply involved. at the very moment that they are making this deal and they shake hands, obama suddenly gets

on the obama campaign and there was coming in now, one little example is john legend get a small concert and the town -- adam at the time is, but the way of saying the town is not a large city. he was in columbus and cleveland. i can't remember at the moment. the reason he went there was that they had seen registration numbers were lagging in this particular area and to reach their legislation goals on which they disaggregated down to this particular piece of turf, that they had him do a concert oriented towards registration, right man at the city hall or wherever people could go on register. it wasn't that they sent john legend and to turn people out. that is happening in broadway's everywhere. so there will be told states they talk about at the end of october, but each campaign will be competing differently based on their vocals, which are coming out of the marker targeting positions. they are basically taken every name of any individual person they think is very supporting and considering most people turn out targets and picking every name of people that they think of as persuadable a

was john legend to the small concert i can't remember what the town laws, but it was not a large city and he was in columbus and cleveland for the county seat and the reason he went there was that they had seen the registration numbers were lacking in this particular area and that to reach the registration goal which the disaggregate it from the state down to this particular piece of turf they had him do towards the registration right here for the city hall or whoever to go in there wasn't that they send john legend and to persuade people but they turned him in to turn people out and that's happened broadway's everywhere server will biggest it's rare talking about in october were there competing with each campaign will be competing differently in each of them based on their vocals which are coming out of those microtargeting predictions which they think every person is considering the manner the target and they are taking every man of people that they think are as persuade the ball and that is informing where the candidate goes to read as a reviewer to -- i know it is hard to predict

campaign there was one little example john legend did a small concert i don't remember what the town was but it's not a large city. he was in columbus and cleveland it was a county seat and the reason he went there is they had seen the registration numbers for lagging in this particular area and to reach the registration goals which the head disaggregate it from the state down to this particular piece of turf they had him do a concert oriented registration the city hall or people could go and register and it wasn't that they send john legend to turn people out, and that's happening in broadway everywhere and so there will be states we're talking about at the end of october where they are competing but each will be competing differently and each of them based on their vocals which are coming out of those microtargeting prevention's which are taking every name of every individual person they think is already supporting them and considering the target taking every name of people they think of as purse readable and that is informing the tv buys, but the candidate goes, the male and every

't they sent in john legend to turn people out. that is happening everywhere. to all states we talk about to in october by each competes differently based on what is basically takes every name of every individual person and they are the turnout targets of louis this persuade double where it goes. >> with everything you know, will there be one case state? if you are interested in? >> to us because they're new two presidential politics it is interesting to see the campaigns to don't have day reflective said of tactics one-party user not equally established to write the presidential campaign. after spending one year you have the most granular familiarity with some of these statistical models but the empirical research of cause and effect i have less and less safe of predictions those who will have very big things but there is a lot in campaigning that that i write about people in politics learned what works and what doesn't people are far more aware of limitations and knowledge and the day are significant. what happens inside elections that is the unknown and anybody that speaks of a two mu

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